In this movie, we are going to talk about creating particles.…When you create particles you can create simple things like snow or rain or you…can make complicated things like lightning, fire or bricks or glass.…In this movie we will just make snow and rain.…If you're following along, I am in Creating_Particles.fla and that file is in…the Chapter 6 folder in the Exercise Files folder.…It's actually just a blank document so you can also create a blank document…as well and just make sure to save it at the end of this exercise.…I want the particles to be kind of small, so I am going to zoom in…before anything else.…

That looks about good.…Now I am going to select the Pencil tool and I'm going to draw a snowflake.…Now it doesn't need to be perfect. Just needs to resemble snowflake somewhat.…So just draw out your snowflake and you can feel free to put little more effort into…yours than I'm putting into my right now.…Either way it will still work.…Notice that I have a stroke height of 3.…

You might want to have a stroke height of somewhere around there.…

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9/26/2007

Taking the principles and skills taught in ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training, Adobe Certified Instructor Todd Perkins demonstrates how to put them to practical use in this course. Todd fully explores ActionScript's most powerful features, including creating advanced navigational interfaces and special effects using XML data and adding accessibility to files via closed captioning. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.